1
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Nature preserve
3,791 acres8.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Harding
Harding, NJ parks, trails & bike paths
About 52% of Harding is conserved land, roughly 6,752 acres. There are about 45 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (8.3 mi), Great Swamp Wilderness (5.7 mi), and Lewis Morris County Park (5.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Harding, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Harding outdoors
Conserved land
52%
6,752 of 13,091 acres
Trails
45 mi
2.2 mi per sq mi · 38 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
1,733 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.7 mi off-road paths
Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
2
Great Swamp Wilderness
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
1,629 acres5.7 mi of trail
Blue TrailYellow TrailOrange TrailIvory TrailGreen Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Lewis Morris County Park
Managed by Morris County
187 acres5.2 mi of trail
Green TrailOrange TrailPatriots' Path (Blue)Red TrailGreen Dot Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Great Swamp Watershed Association
Nature preserve
73 acres2.6 mi of trail
Silverbrook Trail (Green)Orange TrailRed TrailBlue TrailSilverbrook Trail - White
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trail sign
5
Loantaka Brook Reservation
Nature preserve
133 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
All 8 parks & preserves
- Bayne Park12 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Harding Land Trust11 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Scherman Hoffman Wildlife Sanctuary82 ac
Who protects the land
6,752 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 784 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 23 of 118 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis13
- Baseball6
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Harding and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harding | 51.6% | 44.9 mi | 8 |
| Bernards | 16.3% | 23.9 mi | 13 |
| Morris | 12.8% | 23.6 mi | 15 |
| Bernardsville | 8.4% | 8.5 mi | 1 |
| Chatham | 43% | 13.0 mi | 6 |
| Long Hill | 51% | 5.4 mi | 4 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Harding's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.
Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.
How we measure
"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.